> One is for administration and maintenance, and one is for > usabilty. > > Is www.macromedia.com/software/coldfusion hard to remember? > No, but it might change to > www.macromedia.com/software/servers/coldfusion next week. > www.macromedia.com/go/coldfusion, on the other hand, will > NEVER change, and gives MM the ability to muck with their > URLs as they need to. > That level of abstraction should be used for all application > that intend for people to jump into the middle, regardless > of what their URLs actually look like. If you have controlled > access (a login form) then it's probably irrelevant, since > people will have to start at the homepage, but for anything > else, it's a really good idea, especially content-heavy sites.
That's a good argument, I suppose. I don't run into this very often; most everything I get to work on is more of an application with a highly structured path, or if it's a content-heavy site, it's using a CMS anyway. Also, two levels of abstraction in this case require additional setup/migration steps, so that if an application is put in a new environment, someone has to remember to create the redirects, unless they're done in CF rather than in the web server configuration. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
